One of the things that I've noticed here that I find striking is how effective a self-curated feed can be. You choose where to join the Fediverse from, and you select what you see through following with help from others boosting. It's social media technology assisting human interaction rather […]
I'm genuinely mystified about the June 2026 Android security update. Announcements went out at the beginning of June that critical bugs with known zero day exploits were being addressed and the update should be installed as soon as it was available. It's now the 15th and I still haven't gotten […]
Most years I worry about whether this rose will come back. It's a single stalk. It's seen some rough winters and some physical damage. There have been years when it didn't bloom. Thankfully for the last several years it has reminded me of exactly where I planted it many years ago.
So, I found myself catching up on some work today. I was out of the office yesterday afternoon, and had some things I needed to finish up. I have some observations that I suspect will resonate with my fellow software developers:
1) Fred Brooks offered lessons half a century ago in The Mythical […]
It's 8:50 pm. There are lawn mowers. I feel better about my life choices knowing I'm not out there mowing my lawn at 8:50 pm.
They don't claim to support Linux at all. I assume that's because they've never been able to figure out how to get their hooks into it deep enough, which isn't particularly surprising.
My son, a grad student, is struggling with the anti-cheating software he has to run in order to take tests online. He contacted their tech support who told him he needed to uninstall McAfee. He has a relatively new laptop running the pre-installed copy of Windows 11 and Windows Defender, not […]
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If an Everything Omelette didn't have potato wouldn't it be an Almost Everything Omelette?
Ĉi-matene mi vidis ke Natalie Portman havas Erdős-Bacon Nombro de 7. Erdős Nombro estas la distanco inter persono kaj Paul Erdős en publikitaj akademiaj paperoj. Erdős havis nombro de 0. Personoj kiuj estis liaj kun verkistoj havas nombro de 1. Iliaj kunverkistoj havas nombro de 2, se ili ne […]
Ĉi tiu estas en la angla, sed ĝi pritraktas teknologion por tekst-al-parolado kaj parolado-al-teksto por #Esperanto. Do mi skribas ĉi tie en Esperanto. Ĝi montras projektojn kiuj bezonas pli da parolada datumo en Esperanto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HopupDWKgQ0
